This past weekend we and explored a town, about 2 hours away from us, called Ronda. It is situated in a mountainous area and there is a river that runs through and carves out this really cool canyon that the city perches upon. Anyways, Ronda is a pueblo blanco (white-washed town) that has a lot of history. The first place we checked out was the bull-ring. Ronda has the oldest bullfighting ring in Spain--it was built in the 1700s. It was kind of fun to go and see some of the behind the scenes stuff--we saw where they kept the bulls, how they get them out into the rings, then in the museum we saw all kinds of different bullfighting outfits and capes--it was fascinating! I think the kids' favorite part was pretending to be bullfighters or the bull in the bullring!
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| Kailey and I posing like a matador |
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| Me with the bull |
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| Sitting in the bullring |
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| Where they keep the bulls right before the fights |
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| In the bullring--Kailey pretending to be the bull |
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| Eric as the bull |
Next we walked through town to go see the new and old bridges--it was unbelievable and I have no idea how they built these bridges!
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| It was amazing to look down-this is the "new" bridge |
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| The gorge below |
Finally we ended the day playing on a playground that we parked by--we have to test out the playgrounds wherever we go!! We had a great day and Ronda was such an interesting place to go visit!
3 comments:
What a great city! I LOVE that big bridge... beautiful!
Heather you are an inspiration! Specifically, I am referring to how current you are on your blog. For the first time in years I am checking up on family blogs and yours is the only one that is current that I have come across so far. It inspires me to get on the ball so that the family (who is ALL so far away now) can stay up to date. You're the bomb.com woman! How DO you do it all???
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What a beautiful place! As always, I'm so jealous of your adventures! I'm glad you are all doing well.
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